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Photosynth goes mobile
A couple of years ago I wrote about Microsoft’s Photosynth and the then innovation of adding your own image collections to make your own “photosynths”. This was (and still is) very cool, but Microsoft have recently added yet more coolness with the release of an iOS app which makes the process of creating photosynths stupidly [...]
iPads for education
With the release of iPad 2 I thought it timely to re-assess whether iPads may be a viable alternative to the tool we currently recommend for our 1:1 program – the Toshiba M780 tablet PC. There are plenty of people (and governments) who seem to think it might, and those who aren’t so sure. From [...]
GeoMaker – text to map in a couple of clicks
I found this little web app a month or so ago and it is just a little to good to let pass by with as little recognition as a tweet and a bookmark on delicious. GeoMaker is a quick way of taking text (cut and paste or from a URL), extracting the geo-spacial data within [...]
Visualisation for deep understanding
Why visualisation? Juxtaposing datasets (mashing) to form visualisations is a marvelous way of extracting a deep understanding of an issue or topic from students. To create a meaningful visualisation students must know the data they wish to represent. They must understand its origin, collection method and any manipulation it may have undergone. This intimacy with data lends itself [...]
